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10 Questions: A Theoretical Physicist Dives Into Black Holes

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Science Friday

The Hidden Women in Astronomy Research

Researchers have found that women astronomers are cited less than their male colleagues. Koren summarizes a study on this topic and discusses how it disadvantages women astronomers.

The Atlantic

10 Questions: A Physicist Explains The Shimmering Science Behind Auroras

Physicist Liz MacDonald is featured in Science Friday's 10 questions series, where she discusses her work studying auroras, her citizen science project Aurorasaurus, and how she came to be a physicist.

Science Friday

As a woman in science, I need to conceal my femininity to be taken seriously

Cognitive Neuroscience PhD candidate Eve Forster details her experiments to understand how a feminine appearance impacts the way she is perceived by those around her.

Vox

19 Women Leading Math and Physics

Quanta highlights past articles about women in math and physics, in honor of International Women's Day, 2017.

Quanta Magazine

Commentary: Diversity in physics: Are you part of the problem?

Physicist Ann Nelson’s compelling essay stresses that established members of the physics community have no excuse to not mentor and collaborate with a diversity of young physicists and hold diversity as a priority in decision-making for hiring, speakers’ lists, and committees

Physics Today

Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others

This article provides a helpful overview of existing work on gender and STEM, and focuses on the available research to create a model for why women are less represented in computer science, engineering, and physics than they are in biology, chemistry, and mathematics.

Psychological Bulletin

Women invited to give fewer talks than men at top U.S. Universities

Opportunities to share one’s research are critical for career advancement, but data shows that women are less likely to be invited to give talks across several scientific fields. Ed Yong cites a research study carried out across 50 universities to discuss how this puts female scientists at a disadvantage.

The Atlantic

Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

The amount of time a scientist is able to dedicate to their research is key to their career development and advancement. Research shows that women scientists take on more administrative hours and service positions than their male colleagues, which likely puts them at a career disadvantage.

Research on Higher Education

Salaries for female physicists trail those for male colleagues

It is clear that the salaries of women physicists often begin smaller than that of their male counterparts, which greatly impacts them over time. In this piece, Feder discusses recent survey data on salaries in physics and details some of the reasons why there is a disparity.

Physics Today

Collaboration and Gender Equity among Academic Scientists

Researchers determined that collaboration is key to advancing one's scientific career. Therefore, cultures around collaborative work that place women at a disadvantage need to be addressed.

Social Sciences

Using Video to Increase Gender Bias Literacy Toward Women in Science

Psychology of Women Quarterly

A gender bias habit-breaking intervention led to increased hiring of female faculty in STEMM departments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

AIP Reports

The American Institute of Physics regularly conducts reports on women in physics and astronomy. Their recent reports detail the challenges women face in physics, including representation in faculty, salary disparities, and resource challenges.

American Institute of Physics

The Stars Behind Our Stellar Classification System

An excerpt from Dava Sobel's book on the often overlooked women who worked at the Harvard Observatory developing the system currently used to classify stars.

Science Friday

A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

Theoretical particle physicist Helen Quinn is interviewed about her experiences as a physicist and as a advocate for science education.

Quanta Magazine

Pioneering women of physics

The Perimeter Institute shares highlights of the careers of a number of women who contributed to the fields of physics and astronomy, including Greek scholar Hypatia, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Chien-Shiung Wu.

Perimeter Institute

LGBT Climate in Physics

American Physical Society

Women’s and men’s career choices in astronomy and astrophysics

Understanding how and why scientists are inclined to leave the field of research at different points in their careers is an important part of designing the supports and structures that will mitigate against losing talent. This study found that these factors indirectly impact women scientists more than male scientists.

Physical Review Physics Higher Education Research

The Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN): Community-Driven Mentoring for Women in the Atmospheric Sciences

This piece discusses the importance of women faculty members having access to a network and mentors, and highlights the ways in which the informal mentoring relationships created by the ESWN have helped them with all kinds of career and personal challenges.

American Meteorological Society

Combatting professional isolation through mutual mentoring

By creating peer mentoring groups of female physicists, the NSF's ADVANCE program found that women benefited from being able to help one another with professional and personal challenges they face within groups organized across institutions.

Physics Today

Faculty peer networks: role and relevance in advancing agency and gender equity

Researchers determined that collaboration is key to advancing one's scientific career. Therefore, cultures around collaborative work that place women at a disadvantage need to be addressed.

Gender and Education

Gender differences in recommendation letters for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience

By analyzing applicants’ recommendation letters for a prominent geosciences postdoctoral position, the authors of this research demonstrated that female applicants' recommendation letters are shorter and less likely to present the candidate as an excellent choice for the role.

Nature Geoscience

Scientists must work harder on equity

Astronomer Meg Urry challenges the assumption that gender inequality in the sciences is primarily caused by women choosing to have children and its associated career impacts.

Nature

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10 Questions: A Theoretical Physicist Dives Into Black Holes

The Hidden Women in Astronomy Research

10 Questions: A Physicist Explains The Shimmering Science Behind Auroras

As a woman in science, I need to conceal my femininity to be taken seriously

19 Women Leading Math and Physics

Commentary: Diversity in physics: Are you part of the problem?

Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others

Women invited to give fewer talks than men at top U.S. Universities

Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

Salaries for female physicists trail those for male colleagues

Collaboration and Gender Equity among Academic Scientists

Using Video to Increase Gender Bias Literacy Toward Women in Science

A gender bias habit-breaking intervention led to increased hiring of female faculty in STEMM departments

AIP Reports

The Stars Behind Our Stellar Classification System

A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

Pioneering women of physics

LGBT Climate in Physics

Women’s and men’s career choices in astronomy and astrophysics

The Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN): Community-Driven Mentoring for Women in the Atmospheric Sciences

Combatting professional isolation through mutual mentoring

Faculty peer networks: role and relevance in advancing agency and gender equity

Gender differences in recommendation letters for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience

Scientists must work harder on equity

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